Recknagel, a junior, was seeded 16th in the tournament in Malibu. He received a bye into the second round then swept San Diego State's Hunter Nicholas 7-5, 6-3, and toughed out a 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 win over Pacific's Thomasz Krzyszkowski to advance to the fourth round.

Senior Mathieu Forget and freshman Greg Scott each advanced to the third round of the tournament. After a first round bye, Forget defeated Hawaii's Danilo Casanova 6-3, 6-0. He then lost to Eric Johnson of USC, 6-3, 6-0. Scott swept UC Irvine's Eric Gast in the first round, 6-3, 6-1, then topped Dmytro Kovalyov of Hawaii, 6-3, 6-3, before losing a third-round match to 13th-seeded Max Tabatruong of UCLA, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.

Several other Gauchos are competing in the Southwest Regional. Freshman Ziad Sultan had a bye into the second round, then swept Hawaii's Jared Spiker 6-4, 7-6. Sultan lost to San Diego's Patrick Pohlmann in the third round, 6-1, 6-3. Junior Mbonisi Ndimande swept Hawaii's Chas Okamoto 6-2, 6-0 in the first round before dropping a 7-5, 3-6, 7-5 match to San Diego's Thibaut Visy in the second round.

In doubles play, the UCSB tandem of Forget and Ndimande advanced to the third round with a resounding 8-0 victory over San Diego's Andrew Raphaelson and Garrett Taylor.